Heroes and Legends is the title of the Kennedy Space Center’s new $30M multimedia exhibit which includes the Rocket Garden and Astronaut Hall of Fame. The one-hour exhibit experience tells the story of early space missions and the astronauts who took part in them through 3D films, installations and Augmented Reality. It’s highly interactive, with 36 individual mini-docs seen in the interactive pods representing qualities needed to be an astronaut. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex receives 1.5 million visitors a year and this exhibit will live on for decades. It’s an honor to be a small part of it.

The brilliant composer Penka Kouneva has long been focused on sci-fi, space, and astronauts, and she was perfectly fit to be the sole composer of the exhibit. Based here in Hollywood, Penka wrote an epic and inspiring suite of music which is used throughout the whole exhibit, and I co-orchestrated with music with her. It was recorded with an orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the music was mixed here in Los Angeles by audio mastermind John Rodd.

This is a behind-the-scenes video which reveals some of what went into creating the exhibit. Penka discusses the music at 7:43.